From: Michael Kjörling
the DNS RFCs (initially 1034, 1035) were only
published in 1987...
Ah, those were later versions; the originals were:
0882 Domain names: Concepts and facilities. P.V. Mockapetris. November
1983.
0883 Domain names: Implementation specification. P.V. Mockapetris.
November 1983.
Both were updated by RFC0973 before being replaced by 1034/1035.
You might also want to look at:
0881 Domain names plan and schedule. J. Postel. November 1983.
0897 Domain name system implementation schedule. J. Postel. February 1984.
0921 Domain name system implementation schedule - revised. J. Postel. October 1984.
Note that ".com" didn't exist in the early revs.
Noel